Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Chevron, etc.

This past week I decided to take a pause from the Rowan merry-go-round & pick up a few projects that had been laying fallow for a while. And boy am I glad I did, because I now have a finished chevron scarf and am one plane ride away (tomorrow--conference, only 36 hours but still) from a completed Ingenue. As I am sure you are aware, it's not every day that one can lay claim to finishing a chevron because everyone's favorite not-last-minute-gift takes a shitload of time. I gestated my kids longer than each one of these has taken me.Specs:Pattern: Chevron scarf from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle HoversonYarn: STR Lightweight in Monsoon and Footzey-FooNeedles: size 6Mods: NoneI am glad to have persevered because now I have a killer present to give one of my favorite friends. I only basically see her once a year, which might be a good thing because I already told my husband that there would no doubt be problems in our marriage if we both lived in the same city as I would likely ditch my family & want to spend all my time with her, maniacally laughing.As a non-knitter she was a total champ last year and accompanied me to Loop, so it only seems right that I should make her something. I love how the colors on this chevron are basically understated and not crazy. If you are looking for your next time-suck, by all means spend some time perusing the Ravelry project gallery for this project. After several hours you'll emerge, probably realizing that you've soiled yourself, but you sure will have a lot of color combo ideas!

I got on the chevron bandwagon, but unfortunately my colors do not go together.

I'm still ashamed to even look at the whole mess. Maybe the colors would look good with other colors . . . I get a headache just thinking about it. Listening to Stash and Burn, I've heard this happens to people when they shop at Purl. Colors look different in that store.

okay, that's a seriously goodlooking chevron. i finally picked 2 colors and got started on mine, but my combo sucks - the colors look the same!! how? how?! but you have obviously mastered it. totally with you on the time suck. totally with you on the girlfriend word. she's going to love it. good job!

I'm w/ one of the commenters above. Just started following your blog, but love it. Love the knitting and the humor....as a former PA resident (both with the yinz and the yous, but never in between), loving the pics too :) Love, love, love it!